Quotes by Poets - Page 63

Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
Horace
Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Ben Jonson
Feast and your halls are crowded Fast and the world goes by.
Ella Wheeler Wilc
She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.
John Heywood
AH the fat's in the fire.
John Marston
The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Juvenal
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.
Statius
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Robert Frost
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
Florence Earle Coates
The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.
Virgil
I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
Heinrich Heine
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman
Fear has a smell as Love does.
Margaret Atwood
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.
W.S. Gilbert
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
That that is is.
William Shakespeare
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
The farmer works the soil The agriculturist works the farmer.
Eugene F. Ware
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Sweets to the sweet farewell!
William Shakespeare
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
Richard Armour
I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Mary Karr
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Wilfred Peterson
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell
So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
Joseph Addison
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Amiel
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
William Butler Yeats
The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
Randall Jarrell
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.
Brendan Behan
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Lord Byron
To many fame comes too late.
Luis de Camoens
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
William Shakespeare
A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into nothingness.
John Keats
There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson